Great Pretender: Razbliuto

It was good until it wasn't.

I don't know what's wrong with this series. It always starts strong and interesting, only to completely destroy itself by the end.

The same story is repeated here. The first 3 parts ("intermissions") are interesting and enjoyable, and then there's a blatantly rushed ending out of nowhere that makes zero sense. At least it's not at a Looney Tunes level, like in the original anime.

The original characters don't take part in the story, and honestly speaking, they are not needed. The attempt to link them brings almost nothing.

The art and music are cool, as always. If not for the ending, it ... would be a solid 8. But with how it was done, it's meh.

To start,rewatch the great pretender before watching this,personally i havent watched the original for a few years now and i spent way too much time during this film thinking "whos that?".

Overall This was a decent film, comparing it to the original series... it just doesnt have the high points that the original has,its consistently good, not great. The original had amazing and absurd climaxes that this just didnt have, the climax wqs anti climactic, confusing (partially because of the reason above) and just wasnt super satisfying.

The film takes a different approach from the conman style of the original its kind of an action ... drama? Not a lot of conman stuff beyond on character. Which less focus on grifts and tricks could be good,but there isnt really anything to grab onto, if you drop what the series is known for you need to replace it with something equally strong and they just dont do that leaving the characters, plot and pacing feel aimless

Also why is edamura in this film? Did is something or did he just do nothing.

As for visuals,its great pretender, this film is beautiful and I recommend watching the film just for the beauty of it alone, its a style i cant get enough of and if this film exiated purely to give us more of that id say it was worth it.

Overall this is a mixed bag and i cant say it lives up to the original, however id recommend a watch if you just finished a watch/re watch of the series or if your really hankering for more GP, i know i was.

The trademark of this anime is the fake deaths, people can say "wow what a great resource how they trick you with the deaths hahaha because it's an anime about scammers and they scam you" Man, it's good that they do it but in the first season they already overexploited this, it even reduces tension and takes away the value of the character's life as such, because you think "ah, but it doesn't matter, Laurent is going to save him with an Aizen-type plan".

This brings us to Dorothy who gets shot and falls into the sea, maybe I missed something or closed my eyes when ... they explained it to me, but when the hell they explain how she gets out of there. I guess it was the miraculous waves of the sea, I had liked the tragic ending of Dorothy and Laurent, which is the basis of the entire series for Laurent to scam.

I don't know, if you liked the artistic style of the series, which is very good as always and the soundtrack, well, I guess you'll like it.


SPOILER

I feel it is very unnecessary. Although it was all a plan by the goat Laurent, to give Dorothy a quiet life. I liked the ending, which was the last 10 minutes. But of course, the "ONA" lasts more than an hour, no character seems interesting to me other than Dorothy and here she is not interesting at all because she doesn't remember anything. I guess they will continue, this sequel is just to introduce new characters and give Dorothy a happy ending.